Elishafati J. Ndumiwe

Information Structure in Swahili: A Formal Analysis of Focus Marking in Cleft Constructions

Elishafati J. Ndumiwe · Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies · 2026

Cleft constructions are widely used across languages to encode focus in an utterance. The constructions act as the main and central mechanism of marking focus in many languages. The study done in many languages, including Bantu and non-Bantu, noticed macro variation in how clefts...